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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Bloomberg pays off $20m in debt for 31,000 felons in Florida so they can vote
This from the ‘holier than thou party’ demanding no SC appointment before the election because… it’s just not right.
Remember the Democratic debates when they accused Bloomberg of being, "A billionaire trying to buy the presidency?"
Isn't that what he's doing now?
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Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has paid off $20million in debt for more than 31,000 felons in Florida so that they can vote in the state where just 537 votes decided the presidential election in 2000.
The former Democratic presidential candidate stepped in to help felons who have completed their prison sentences so they can vote on November 3.
Bloomberg, who is worth more than $50billion, raised more than $20million to assist in his endeavor while also pledging $100million to help Joe Biden win Florida.
'We know to win Florida we will need to persuade, motivate and add new votes to the Biden column. This means we need to explore all avenues for finding the needed votes when so many votes are already determined,' Bloomberg said in a written statement.
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg (pictured) has paid off $20million in debt for more than 31,000 felons in Florida so that they can vote in the state where just 537 votes decided the presidential election in 2000
'The right to vote is fundamental to our democracy and no American should be denied that right. Working together with the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, we are determined to end disenfranchisement and the discrimination that has always driven it,' the statement added.
A Bloomberg adviser told the Washington Post: 'Mike wanted to get this done for two reasons. One, because it’s the right thing to do for the democracy. And two, because it immediately activates tens of thousands of voters who are predisposed to vote for Joe Biden.'
The move comes just days after Florida Gov Ron DeSantis won a court victory to keep felons from voting until they've paid off fines, restitution and court fees.
A federal appellate court ruled on September 11 that in addition to serving their sentences, Florida felons must pay all fines, restitution and legal fees before they can regain their right to vote.
The case could have broad implications for the November elections. Florida has 29 electoral college votes that are crucial to President Donald Trump's hopes of staying in the White House.
Under Amendment 4, which Florida voters passed overwhelmingly in 2018, felons who have completed their sentences would have voting rights restored. Republican lawmakers then moved to define what it means to complete a sentence.In addition to prison time served, lawmakers directed that all legal financial obligations, including unpaid fines and restitution, would also have to be settled before a felon could be eligible to vote.
The Florida Rights Restitution Coalition had raised about $5million before Bloomberg made calls to raise almost $17million more, according to Bloomberg staffers.
The money is targeted for felons who registered to vote while the law was in question and who owe $1,500 or less.
That accounts for about 31,100 people, the staffers said. In a state that decided the 2000 presidential election by 537 votes, that could be critical in a year when polls show Trump and Biden in a dead heat.
Organizers for the group say they aren't targeting people registered with a particular political party.
'To hell with politics, to hell with any other implications or inuations, at the end of the day it's about real people, real lives, American citizens who want to be a part of this,' said Desmond Meade, the group's executive director.
'People with felony convictions have had their voices silenced for so long,' Meade added.
The group said other donors include John Legend, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, Ben & Jerry's, Levi Strauss & Co, the Miami Dolphins, the Orlando Magic, the Miami Heat and Stephen Spielberg.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
San Francisco to Give $1,000 a Month to Pregnant Black Women
So the message is...
Wed Sep 16, 2020
Daniel Greenfield
The new black nationalist cultural revolution is really opening up the Overton Window.
Before this, institutions would at least try to disguise this kind of thing behind diversity and means tests. Now they're not even bothering with the disguises.
Some expectant Black and Pacific Islander mothers in San Francisco will get $1,000 a month during their pregnancy, officials announced, as the city looks to improve a longstanding racial gap in birthing outcomes.
Mayor London Breed on Monday introduced the Abundant Birth Project, which will give a basic income supplement to 150 Black and Pacific Islander women during pregnancy. They’ll get $1,000 a month through their pregnancy and for the first six months postpartum, “with a goal of eventually providing a supplement for up to two years post-pregnancy,” the mayor announced.
“Providing guaranteed income support to mothers during pregnancy is an innovative and equitable approach that will ease some of the financial stress that all too often keeps women from being able to put their health first,” Breed said in a statement.
Dr. Zea Malawa of the San Francisco Department of Public Health echoed this sentiment, claiming, “Providing direct, unconditional cash aid is a restorative step that not only demonstrates trust in women to make the right choices for themselves and their families, but could also decrease the underlying stress of financial insecurity that may be contributing to the high rates of premature birth in these communities. It is exciting to be in a city that not only calls out racism as a problem, but also takes steps to heal the wounds left by decades of injustice and anti-Black sentiment.”
(How does NOT receiving $1,000 a month in free taxpayer cash increase rates of premature birth?)
So San Francisco will now just be writing checks to people because of their DNA.
San Francisco is trying to disguise this as a research study, and research studies often pick specific groups, but when the government is managing something like this while trying to produce a specific outcome, it's not a study. It's an intervention. And one that very obviously privileges a racial group while rewarding its members.
And this is the camel's nose creeping into the tent. If you want to see how reparations actually arrives, this is how.
They hate Trump so much they come from other countries to kill him
Who is Pascale Ferrier, the woman accused of sending ricin to Trump?
The Canadian woman charged with sending a ricin-laced letter to President Trump apparently tweeted a hashtag supportive of killing the commander-in-chief less than two weeks ago.
She might as well have Liberal Lezbo stamped on her forehead.
There... that's better.
Pascale Ferrier, of Quebec, was arrested Sunday at the border crossing between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York, after allegedly mailing a letter addressed to Trump containing the highly toxic substance, according to CBC News.
She was carrying a gun at the time of her arrest at the Peace Bridge crossing, CNN said.
An account appearing to belong to Ferrier, 53, tweeted in response to a since-deleted post on Sept. 9: “I just read this tweet. I agree… Nobody did anything… It’s time to change! #killtrump.”
She also allegedly tweeted the same day to someone, “I have a new name for Trump: ‘the ugly tyrant clown.'”
The account bears the name Pascale Ferrier and lists Laval, Quebec, as the location. In her bio, Ferrier describes herself as a “techno-creative Nomad.”
Ferrier, who had been living in the US last year, was deported to Canada after authorities found she overstayed her six-month visa and had committed a crime while in America, the New York Times reported, citing a senior intelligence official.
Court records show that in March 2019, she was arrested in Texas on tampering with a government record charges. But the Times said she was also busted for possession of an unlicensed weapon and resisting arrest. She was found to be carrying a fake driver’s license, the official told the outlet.
The tampering with a government record charge was dismissed that May after she spent 20 days in jail — which is when officials uncovered her visa issue.Enlarge Image![]()
Pascale FerrierFacebook
A Facebook page under the name Pascale Ferrier describes her as self-employed, and sources told CTV News that she worked as a computer programmer.
Meanwhile, a Facebook business page called La Techno-Creative Nomade, run by that same Ferrier profile, posted in French about being in Texas in June 2019 and being “disappointed” that items were made in places like China and Mexico.
“If I’m in USA, I want to buy ‘made in USA,'” a translated version of the post said.
The poison-tainted letter addressed to Trump was detected at a government facility that screens mail addressed to the White House and the president. Two tests were done to confirm the presence of ricin, which has no known antidote.
Ferrier is also suspected of sending other ricin-filled letters to police in Texas.
“We believe a total of six letters were sent: one to the White House and five to Texas,” Cpl. Charles Poirier, spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Quebec division, told CBC News.
RCMP officers were searching a condominium in Saint-Hubert on Monday but would not say how the residence was linked to Ferrier.
Ferrier is due to appear in federal court in Buffalo Tuesday afternoon.
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